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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-06
Written for the Eagle.
THE FLAG OF TIE FREE.
"a reply.)
fly MAJOR MAcNAMARA.J

rThe dividing line between civilization an
actual barbarlsm is best indicated by tla
fact, that the latter have no insignia Or ma
This is distinctly the case wit
the colored people and a vast number OF ot},e
benighted races-Harpers Weeklyl
The flag of your race
Is the flag of the free!
A victor on land
And triumph on sea!
IT'S the queen of all flags,
And flag it's to thee,
More precious than crowns
To the kingly can be!
The flag of your race
Is the banner of Marsl
With stripes of the rainbow
And heaven born stars
Bedeck'd, SO it beams,
Like the gems over head,
On the brave who are living
And those who are dead!
Swarthy your face,
And stalwart your hand;
A child of the sun
OF the tropical land.
Slaves were your sires,
Far over the sea;
Imperial their sons,
Cnshackled and free!
God bless our bright flag
Wherever it wave>i
It has broken tn, burden
The shackles of slaves!
And free as the air.
That we breathe, are they now,
With Hope in their heart,
And Pride on their browl
In the madness Of battle
Ye struck to be free!
You, your banner upheld
As the waves Of the sea
Holds up the millions
That ride on its breast
Till triumph had left you
On Liberty's crest!
Then wave out your banner
The stripes and the stars
It SHATTERED your chains
And it broke down your bars:
Beneath it you fought
Beneath it you bled,
IT'S the flag Of the living,
The shroud of your dead!
Wichita, March 9. 1887.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-06

+. H. Greer & Co.'S Heralder, six
column folio, illustrated and beautifully
printed sheet, haling from Winfield, lies
upon our table. The Heralder is issued in
the interest of Winfield real estate and is a
very attractive paper.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-06

"BOodlized' is the hard word which
unreliable democratic sheets are t1inging at
the members Of the Kansas house of rep
resentatives.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-06

The fellows who regret Waterloo seem
10 t,e increasing in number on this side of
the big pond or otherwise they have kept
mum for q long time.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-06

The little forryear old child OF Mr..
Powell. fell into kettle If boiling ~sier
OF last Thursday. and died.-Emporia
Republican.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23

a Dastardly Attempt Of Regulators TO
Drive Them From Parish.

NEW ORLEANS March 22 The outrages
against Jewish merchants broke out again
last week, but are not meeting with the same
favor and success OF that Witlxowshi case last
fall. Two Of the leading merchants Of
Avnyelles ara Messrs Kahn, of Evergreen,
and Felix Banr, Of Cottonport, both Jews
They were doing fine business Business
jealousies, coupled probably with some Of
that anti semitic feeling, which so often
shows itself in rural sections, moved NUM-
bersof wild young men to seek to drive them
from the parish.
The alti-Semitics rode up to the Kahn
store and riddled it and the surrounding fence
with bullets. The next day Mr.. Kahn and
Mr.. Bauer were served with notices calling
attention to what the mob had done, and
warning them to leave the parish at once IL
they wished to save their lives The motives
Of the rioters was well shown by their proc
lamation posted i'm d number Of public
places, declaring that the people Of Ayoy
elles as they styled themselves wanted no
more Jews among them, and therefore ad-
vised all Jews to leave the parish by April,
under penalty Of death. Much To the dis
gust of the regulators however, the mat
ter has been brought to the attention Of the
governor, and he has responded By Offering
large reward for the arrest and conviction Of
the regulators concerned III the affair The
states attorney ii preparing for vigorous
campaign, and q large number of arrests
will soon be made.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
FRlGHTFUL. ACCIDENT.
John Rapp scalded with vitrioi at the
GrasseIIi Chemical works.

CINCINNATI, March % John Rapp, aged
thirty-seven years, living with his family at
~ Martin street, was frightfully scalded
while at work at Grasselli's chemical works,
at Pearl and Martin streets, about noon yes
terday. Rapp is employed about the place
to do general work, and about II o'clock he
was standing near the vitriol watts. He threw
something into one of the watts and the acid
splashed out Some of it struck hinf under
the chin and ran down his breast, scalding
him in frightfui manner.
The unfortunate fellow fairly shrieked
with agony, and his cries could be heard over
square away. He was carried to the office
of the works, and one of the physicians Of
the Good Samaritan hospital summoned.
Everything possible was done to alleviate
his sufferings, after which he was carried
home The sufferer prayed for DEATH and ii
was with difficulty that he was prevented
from doing violence to himself.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
People who want once.

WASHINGTON, March 22-The civil service
commissioners day or two ago received .
letter foom public school teacher lii Mich
igan wanting to know If some Of the com
missioners wouldn't bring her . blank appli-
cation the next time he happened to be in her
neighborhood. A blank form was sent to
her and was shortly after returned filed up.
Her age was stated at forty mine, but the
physician who certified to her health said
that, though she was forty mine, hscouid as
sure the commissioner she did noe look day
over thirty five, and was as spry as q woman
of thirty.
A gentleman down in Texas whose applica-
ton looked as If dozen animated self-ink-
ing dens had been dancing the Virginia reel
over it, wrote that dur.lg the time his APP
pointmant was pending as would accept any
Office thatpaii over s., 900 year.
Another lady who wished to change her
back woods residence fol: government EN-
ploye's desk in the capital sent her mothers
marriage certificate to prove her age, and
also inclosed with the application = letter
asking the commissioners to keep President
Cleveland from going to the theater that
week as she had premonition that some
thing horrible would happen to him if lie
went there.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
TIE BUFFALO HoL ocAusT.
Searching In the Ruins for the Dead-Con-
dition Of the Injured.

dition of the Injured.
BUFFALO, March %. The hotel safe was
taken from the ruins Of the Richmond house
This morning and opened. In two large
pocket books, wrapped in thick paper and
sealed. were found 50, O)0 worth OF diamonds
belonging to Max Adler, of New York, and
in leather box belonging to Louis E. Smith,
Of New YORK, between 5000 and $4,000
worth Of diaulonIs AMI jewalry.
al noon tire work Of tearing down the dan-
gerous wallis began. When this is completed
ne arduous task Of searching fer bodies will
be renewed
The injured at the hospitals are slowly inn
proving, excepting Edward Wheeler, of
EeWburg, who IS very low; Mary Nolan, a
servant who is not expected to live; Clinton
BidWell, Maggie Mulralch and Fanny Har
ycy. the latter two servants, whose cases are
critical
H III Altshul. Of New York, will be able
to leave in il rev days; Irving A Finch, Of
Scranton, Pa, Is improving, and Il. *.
Moore will leave for Cleveland to-day in
special car acco npanied by nurse.
The list now stands as follows: Known to-
be dead, six: given up for dead, five; miss
ing, six. There has been added to the list Of
missing since the last report, George Thomp-
son, commercial traveller for an umbrella
house, came here Thursday from Erie and
was to stop at the Richmond, not heard from
since, and an aged couple from New York,
names unknown who told Rev. DR.. Brown,
Of st. Paul's church, on Thursday night
chat they were stopping at the Richmond
and would attend services Sunday morning,
They have not been seen since the fire.
Joseph Sayers, OF New York, reported
missing, has turned up in Lockport He did
not stop at the Richmond.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Nine. scalcI,i Improving.

CHICAGO, March ~. Nine ScaIchi, the
celebrated singer, who has been lying at the
Grand Pacific for the past ten days suffering
from combination OF nervous prostration
and incipient typhoid fever, il in an im-
proved condition and her PHI sicians expect
that unless unfavorable symptoms again be-
come manifest, she win be able to leave her
room at the close Of the present week. II ii
doubtful, however, IL she will Be able ia
complete the balance of her contract with
the Patti company. Numerous rumors are
afioat regarding the origin Of the nervous
preservation which laid the foundation for
her illness: one limiting at internal dissen-
sions III the company, growing ont Of the
ovations and favorable comments which
were rendered and given the artistic at
Omaha and other western and northwestern
points and another that it was due to trouble
growing out Of the non-payment Of her
salary The latter story, however, is not be-
lieved iii view Of the great success which has
attended the Patti tour. Neither Mime.
Scalcn nor her husband will talk on the
matter.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Bud Turner'S Tragic Death.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas, March %. Fur
ther particulars Of the killing Of Bud Turner,
the New York ranchman, near Seymour,
state that there were twenty-six bullet holes
in the side OF the buggy in which Turner sat.
Two ssdrninmers, z who came into Seymour
the same evening just before the killing, had
noticed men some distance from the road
with spy glasses. They followed the drum
mers' and tried to discover who they were.
Sheriff Board, of Taylor county, Saturday
might arrested Lem Chester, A. d. Pickain
and AL Bailey, on the charge Of being impli-
Gated i'll the killing.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
NO APPOINTMENTS MADE IN THE IN
TERSTATE COMMISSION.

Three Of the Appointments Still in Doubt.
Active Contest for the secretaryship.
The Nfonotony OF tho civil Service Com
mission-Other Capitol Notes.
WASHINGTON, March 90 1t is stated at
the White House that no further progress
has been made in the selection Of the inter
state commerce commission and that the APP
pointments cannot be announced for several
days yet The impression prevails that new
obstacles have been encountered. The repre-
sentation has been very strongly made to the
president that the geographical distribution
must be re-arranged, so as to give one menu
Der to the northwest, east of the Mississippi.
Ex-Congressman Grape, Of Massachusetts,,
has declined or been dismi ssed from the list
Of eligibles as is understood, in consequence
of railroad interests which he could not at
ford to surrender, It is now intimated that
three Of the commissionerships are more or
less in doubt The contest for the secretary
ship of the commission has become quite ac-
tive Mr. Jones, private secretary to Assist
ant Secretary Muldrew, and Mr.. Cowell, Of
Philadelphia, are regarded as among the
leading candidates
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Fatal Torpedo Explosion.

CINCINNATI, March 70. Saturday after
noon, Clara, aged five, and Title, aged three
years, daughters OF Mr.. Fritz Gross, OF Mad
sonville found a railroad torpedo while
playing iii the rear Of Maphett's grocery.
Childlike, they wished to see what was in.
side Of the thing, AMI began pounding il
with d stone An explosion instantly fol-
owed and pieces of the flying metal struck
lille iii the head, flacturing her skull and
tearing Clara's eve from its socket, Since
hen the younger child has lain in d
comatose condition, AMI although there is 4
slight jerking of tile limbs, still she shows no
other signs Ut life Clara was brought 10
this city Yesterday to be operated upon By
Or. Williams, and was taken home last
night. Both ara iii very dangerous condi-
ton. How the torpedo got there j. a
mystery, but it Is supposed TO have been
thrown there by the thieves who burglarized
Maphett's store some time ago
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
One of the Buffalo Fire Victims.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, March - The re-
mains OF Henry B. Rumsey, the hero Of the
Buffalo hotel fire, arrived here last night
The body is SO terribly burned that but q
single member Of the family has had the
courage to view it. The face is swollen and
blackened and bears no resemblance to that
which his distracted wife remembers and
cherishes, and she has not been permitted to
look into the coffin The funeral services
win probably be held Wednesday. a young
son Of the deceased is United States naval
student, and is now at the Congo river in
Africa ON his FIRST cruise,
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
senator Cameron for President.

HARRISBURG, Pa, March ~ During
Senator Camerons recent visit to this city, a
conference was held at the residence of his
father. Gen. Simon Cameron, at which the
question Of the Senator's candidacy for pres
ident was discussed C. r. Magee, who is
known as the Cameron manager in state pol
itics, and Henry Bush Of Reading, another
trusted lieutenant were present. After
weighing the subject in all its phases the
senator Is understood to have given author
ity to his friends to press his name on the
Republicans Of the state, and they conf
IDENTIFY claim that the delegation from this
state in the next convention will Be solid for
Cameron
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Robbilig i Payanaster.

DOUGLAS, WI n, March 2s Particulars
are just received Of the robbery Of United
States Army Pay:nastef p. N. Bush Of 81,
500, at Antelope Springs, while en- route to
Fort Mckinney to pay Oft troops During
the progress OF meal at hotel q stranger
ran to the vehicle where the paynaster had
left the valise containing the money, seized
It and jumped on horse standing near
The payinnster,s party followed the fugitive
md exchanged several shots with him, but
as his horse was far superior to those on
which the paymasters party were mounted
be was soon lost to sight The money taken
amounts to $500; $50 in silver and the re-
mainder III bills.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
THE FLOOD At BISMARCK.
The River Stnl Rising and Doing vast
Amount OF Damage.

BISMARCK, Oak, March - The river has
risen slowly all day and is still rising an inch
an hour, having passed the high water mark
of the memorable food Of 1881. All the low
lands are now inundated The only houses
flooded on the Bismarck side are few SQUAT
ters' shacks Bismarck Is forty feet above
water. From the bluffs one can see huge
cakes of ice piled up in the streets Of Man
dan, and the water extends to near the Inter
Ocean hotel. The only method OF commune
cation between the towns IS via Cheyenne
and Ogden
Boston syndicate property, including -four
mill, and some fifty residences, elevator,
shops and everything south Of the track is
submerged The Upper Heart river has not
yet broken. The loose ice has began running
again. The indications are that the Fort
Buford rise il beginning to be felt. All
boats are still safe, as is the Northern Pacific
warehouse, the river being SO wide that the
ice no longer crowds them. Superintendent
Odell received kilograms from the western
division OF the road via ST. Paul, that
trains are running through to Mandan from
Portland, no other bridges being out.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
A1leged Counterfeiter arrested.

CINCINNATI, March =: - Elmer Cooper,
aged twenty-five of Liverpool O., was ar
rested by Lieutenant Ral1el last night on sils-
picion that he was the man who, two weeks
ago, acknowledged to Charles Waters, Of
Pinkerton's detective agency, that he was
showing counterfeits, and was willing to turn
over s, 600 bogus money to him He denies
The charge and win be examined BY The
United States commissioners.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
The Interstate Commission.

WASHINGTON, March % The makeup Of
the interstate commerce commission is no
nearer settlement now than it was when
Ex-Governor Robinson left for Boston com
missioned to offer the place he had declined
to Congressman Grape, of Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Grape is in Washington now, and it is
authoritively stated that he has declined to-
accept the position.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Training Boat and Crew Go Down.

WASHINGTON, March %. The navy de
partment is informed of the loss Of one of the
boats OF the training ship Saratoga, at Trin~
idad, and the drowning of its occupants, the
paymaster's clerk. and three others The four
men had been ashore and were returning to
the ship when the boat was swamped.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Scenes of the Flood.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March ~. Judge
Francis, of Dakota reached here to-day. He
says the scenes Of tine flooded districts are in
dascribable, Ice cakes 100 feet square were
thrown III. the air several feet whenever they
struck an obstacle. The force Of the current
snapped . cable, holeslg the warehouses to
tho hank, as though it was common thread.
Tie warehouse, over 800 feet long, was moved
some distance and landed high AMI dry. II the
Missouri river should now freeze and the
Yellowstone break away and pour its ice
against the 10 III the Missouri, the result to-
Mandail Would be terrible.
It seems strange, said the judge, to have
Mandaa in full view, vet less accessible to
communication than London. Several tons
ct Western mail have been brought back
from B:snlares to be sent around via Union
Pacific
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
the New bridge at RoslindaIe.

BosToN, Mass, March % The newly
constructed wooden bridge at Roslindale,
built in place Of the one wrecked, was tested
last evening, two locomotives, weighing sew
eral thousand pounds each, passing over ii
safety, the tenders being back to back II Isl
constructed Of hard pine. It is stated that
regular travel over the bridge wiki be re-
sumed to-day
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Recorder OF Deeds Trotter 8ettor.

WASHINGTON, March % Mr.. Trotter,
the new recorder Of deeds for this district,
who was attacked with serious case Of
pneumonia last Thursday. IS reported better
to-day. The physicians think the crisis Of
the disease Is passed
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Died Of Heart Disease.

NEW York, March ~ A. J. Requier
died Saturday night with heart disease. He
was born in Charleston, S. G., in ls26 was
United States district attorney for Alabama
when the war broke out, and retained the Of
fee under the Confederacy, afterward coming
to New York and acquiring high rank as a
awyer here.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Nayfgatinll omen.

CALAIS, Me-, March ~. Navigation is
now open on the St Croix river as far as
Union wharf Above there the ice Is break
ing up and the next tide will probably carry
it out and leave the river clear to tile head Of
navigation
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
New commissioners Of Patents.

WASHINGTON, March 22. Ex- Congress
man BentonJ. Hall, Of Iowa, whose appoint
ment as commissioner of patents win be an
nounced this week. win assume charge Of the
patent Office May |.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Measles Epidemic.

W1NoHlsTEa, O., March q. There are
over fifty cases Of measles at Locust Grove,
this, Adams, county. Seven deaths occurred
yesterday. The schools are all closed.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-23
Tannery Rurned.

NAP, Cal, March q. Thomas McBain's
tannerv was destroyed by fire last night.
Loss over $50, 900; partially insured
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-12-21

BKvRKIuPAEKNTE TaAT PRoMEaE A 0REAx
SCANDAL.
PET1sBuao, Dee. 20.-John Henry,
travelling passeneer agent OF the Pits
bnfR & Lake Erie railway, and q num-
Der Of other officials and clerks IN she
passenger department. and tioket office,
Yesterday received carefully w0fdsd no.
tffication, signed by Presidents John
Newell and General Superintendent
Holbrsok, signifying thas their prcs
ence would not be required at thar
respective desks for few days, as the
books Of the department. were keinR
a1Gited 90 get ready for ths rev systeIn
Of handling tickets about q Be adopted.
fnss IL iha beRinning Of Developments
IA the passenger department Of the
Pisssburg a Laka EFle railway. which
promise 10 assume the proportions Of
She recent startling disclosures Ia he
freight depaFtment on ihe Panhandle.
F1g months the high officials Of the
read have suspected that something
was very loose, o. something Wss posi-
tiVsiy crooked. Their suspicion was ex-
astsd 60 the matter Of the tiekes sales
aud receipts Of the read, and within 8
few weeks they have ontained proof
thas they weFa baiuR systematically
robbed, bat W. ere and b. whom. ae 70
What extent, esn ouiy be told after a
careful inycstienti0n oi the books and
aouounts Of The whois department.
IL "a thouaht that oounteFfeit tiokeis
are 10 existence, ard that With the sys
ara cf tickft accounts kept By tie eom-
pang Il would hardly be possible uithoul
/ collision f0r fraud 10 be psFpetra1ed.
Agent Smilh was ineinded among thoes
temporarily relieved from daty.